The Royal Alpha's Destined Bride

Chapter 5

Venkert couldn't help but notice that I was behaving quite strangely when he found me in Maribel's bedroom earlier. In fact, I had been acting strangely since the first day he brought me to the palace. He understood that I could have been uncomfortable but an entire month had gone by since he proposed to me and brought me to live with him and his family. His mother and sister had been very kind to me and treated me as though I were family from the second they heard about me; at least according to him.

I was to be family soon. I would marry Ven and he would inherit the royal crown, making him the new King of Ruslan and I the new Queen. The kingdom had been absent of a king for over a decade since the previous king died when Ven was only a child. The kingdom was rejoicing and had been celebrating from the moment he became engaged.

He convinced himself that the reason I was so reserved and anxious was because of the heavy title that would be bestowed on my head in only a number of days. The title of 'Queen' may not have been very influential but it played a major role, and that title along with those roles would fall on me, who had been nothing more than a peasant human a month ago.

I would be the first human to be welcomed into the family and the kingdom. I would help Ven to pave a way to creating a kingdom that was welcoming of all creatures of the world and to end the feud between humans that started many generations ago.

He asked me many times if I was comfortable with living at the palace and all of those times I said I was, albeit hesitantly. He wanted to be absolutely certain that I really was and wanted me to be honest with him, however, he didn't know how he would feel if I told him that I wasn't happy. He wanted to marry me and no one else. He was madly in love with me to the point where he opposed his mother's opinions about the humans.

When I didn't appear when it was time to welcome the guests to the palace, he knew for certain that something was wrong. He was in the foyer, looking past the opened double doors that were the entrance into the palace at the snow that was falling through the atmosphere. His mother, Iris, was standing beside him. Had it been I who was standing beside him instead, he would have been more than content with introducing me to the guests as they were coming in. But Iris insisted that the current queen be the one to welcome the guests alongside the future king.

"... I should go and check on her-" Ven said after a moment of wondering what I could have been doing at that moment.

"Don't bother her," and Iris said, interrupting him before he could turn to walk up the staircase behind the two of them, "... She's been feel ill all morning. It's best if you let her rest for today. Otherwise, she won't be in the best of health on the wedding day." She's already weak and pathetic enough as she is, is what she wanted to add to her statement but she refrained from saying it to keep up the impression that she liked me.

Both Iris and I had a similar thought process in the sense that after becoming queen, Iris and Mari's influence over me would cease. They would no longer any authority and would become mere members of the royal family. Iris knew this and if Ven were to ever find out that she and his sister treated me terribly, they would face a tragic future and probably be exiled from the kingdom.